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Their economy is mostly a Ponzi scheme
MAGA are convinced that Tim Walz is some kind of 'Chinese sleeper agent' - and are peddling their wild theories on Fox News.
The Minnesota governor has visisted China an estimated 30 times, spending a year teaching at a high school in the country as part of one of the first government-sanctioned groups of American teachers.
Walz, who was accused of 'betraying his country', went to China on his honeymoon with wife Gwen and reportedly still speaks some Mandarin, which has left Donald Trump supporters extremely concerned.
originally posted by: Degradation33
a reply to: CarlLaFong
Next, may I suggest tarnishing his record as a football coach?
originally posted by: CarlLaFong
originally posted by: Degradation33
a reply to: CarlLaFong
Next, may I suggest tarnishing his record as a football coach?
Have at it.
It shouldn't be that difficult to find something icky.
Walz' life is an open little red book.
The Great Chinese Famine (Chinese: 三年大饥荒; lit. 'three years of great famine') was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China (PRC).[2][3][4][5][6] Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962.[7][8][9][10] It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, with an estimated death toll due to starvation that ranges in the tens of millions (15 to 55 million).[note 1] The most stricken provinces were Anhui (18% dead), Chongqing (15%), Sichuan (13%), Guizhou (11%) and Hunan (8%).[1]
The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation's planned economy, . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Along with collectivization, the central government decreed several changes in agricultural techniques that would be based on the ideas of later-discredited Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko.[81] One of these ideas was close planting, whereby the density of seedlings was at first tripled and then doubled again. The theory was that plants of the same species would not compete with each other. In natural cycles they did fully compete, which actually stunted growth and resulted in lower yields.
Another policy known as "deep plowing" was based on the ideas of Lysenko's colleague Terentiy Maltsev, who encouraged peasants across China to eschew normal plowing depths of 15–20 centimeters and instead plow deeply into the soil (1 to 2 Chinese feet or 33 to 66 cm). The deep plowing theory stated that the most fertile soil was deep in the earth, and plowing unusually deeply would allow extra-strong root growth. While deep plowing can increase yields in some contexts, the policy is generally considered to have hindered yields in China.